APLCPD - Anticipation Guide

Ronald Reagan hosting the much anticipated opening of Disneyland.

Double Entry Anticipation Guide

Strategy Handout
Primary Source 1: Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger

Primary Source 2: Cover of Time Magazine showing Challenger Explosion
Primary Source 3: Video of First Moon Landing

Teaching and learning purposes:

To prepare students to read a primary text;
To help students engage emotionally and intellectually with the content of a primary text;
To develop the students’ prior knowledge about an event that will help students read the text within the appropriate historical context.

Adapted from Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, and Nancy Steineke. (2007). Content Area Writing: Every Teacher’s Guide. Heinemann.

Primary source: Challenger Disaster Speech

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/12886b.htm

Remember: This pedagogy works with almost ANY text. Experiment…especially with texts that your students have had difficulty with in the past.

Possible Variations

Give students, in pairs, or in groups different primary texts around the same, or related events. After completing the Anticipation Guide, they read and discuss the texts with their thinking partners, then report out to the entire class. (This is a wonderful way to differentiate instruction as a teacher can adjust the level of textual difficulty to match student needs and abilities.)
When choosing primary sources, remember that charts, maps, and photographs “count” as texts.
Double Entry Journal: Have students choose the passages to which they will respond while reading. They then respond in writing to their selected passages before discussing their responses in pairs, groups, or the whole class.